Canada hit back at the United States on Friday with retaliatory tariffs on American summertime essentials including Florida orange juice, ketchup and Kentucky bourbon in its opening salvo in a trade war with President Donald Trump.

French financial police have seized 10 wineries in the Bordeaux area which are owned by Chinese conglomerate Haichang over suspicions of tax fraud, a police source told AFP on Friday. 

A key measure of US inflation hit a six-year high in May, matching the central bank's target in another sign price pressures are finally rising, the government reported Friday.

Greece's long-term debt prospects are uncertain, the International Monetary Fund said Friday, questioning the country's ability to maintain high budget surpluses to 2060 under a recent eurozone deal.

Inflation in the eurozone rose to the symbolically important level of two percent in June, data showed on Friday, fuelled by high oil prices.

The Indian rupee slumped to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday as the currency comes under increasing pressure from rising oil prices.

Confidence among German consumers should resist fears of a trade war between Washington and Brussels in July, a survey published Thursday showed.

After months of delay, EU leaders on Friday will discuss several proposals, many watered down, to reform the euro single currency after the bitter battering of the debt crisis.

The bloc's 27 leaders meeting without Britain will largely work off proposals set down with great pomp by France and Germany, known as the Meseberg Declaration, after the site of a recent meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron. 

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he supported tougher restrictions on foreign investment in sensitive technology, as well as export controls on those goods, but he stopped short of imposing specific restrictions on China.

U.S. antitrust regulators on Wednesday conditionally approved Walt Disney's proposed $71.3 billion purchase of key 21st Century Fox assets, boosting the chances for the tie-up to create a new media-entertainment powerhouse.